What We Do

Six Services. Most Clients Need Two Of Them.

Here is everything we do, and an honest note on each about when it is worth your money and when it is not. If you want to skip the reading, the free audit tells you which ones apply to you specifically.

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How To Read This Page

The Question Is Not What We Offer. It Is What You Need.

Three things worth knowing before you pick anything off the list below.

01

Two Channels Beat Six

Spread across everything, nothing gets enough weight to work and nobody can tell which part earned the phone call. Almost every proposal we write recommends two or three of the services below, and says plainly why the rest are not worth funding yet.

02

Timing Decides The Channel

If you need leads this quarter, that is ads. If you want traffic that keeps arriving after you stop paying, that is SEO, and it is a three month question minimum. Choosing the wrong one for your situation is the most expensive mistake in this list.

03

The Cheapest Work Is Usually Not Marketing

Answering the enquiries you already get, asking for reviews properly, and fixing pages that compete with each other cost very little and often move the number faster than new traffic does. We look at those first.

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Two business days. No deck.

Rather than pick from the list, let us look at your actual position and tell you which two things to fund. We will show you where you rank today, what your competitors are doing, where your enquiries go, and what it would realistically take. If what you are doing now is working, we will say so.

  • Your current position on the terms that carry real volume
  • Which of your own pages are competing with each other
  • An honest timeline and the two channels worth funding first
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The List

What Each One Is Actually For

Including when we would tell you not to buy it.

Search Engine Optimisation

The map pack, the organic results underneath, and the technical floor beneath both. Slow — three months minimum — and it compounds. Worth it if you can wait a quarter. Not the answer if you need the phone ringing in three weeks.

Web Design And Development

Fast on a phone, built to turn visitors into enquiries, and editable by you afterwards. Worth it if your current site is slow, hard to update, or gives people nowhere obvious to go. Not worth it if the site is fine and the real problem is that nobody can find it.

Google Ads

Immediate and measurable, and it stops the day you stop paying. Right when you need leads this quarter or you are testing a new service. Wrong as a permanent substitute for ranking — you are renting a position you could own.

Reputation And Reviews

A systematic review request at the moment people are most likely to say yes, and every review answered. Cheap, fast, and for a local business it moves the map pack more than almost anything else. We recommend this to nearly everyone.

Lead Follow-Up And Automation

Enquiries routed into a system that texts back within seconds, records every lead, and flags anything nobody answered. Usually the highest-return thing on this page, because it converts traffic you are already paying for.

Social Media

Honest version: for most local service businesses this builds trust for people who already found you rather than finding you new customers. Worth funding once search is working. We will tell you when it is not where your money should go.

How We Start

The First Ninety Days

Whatever the mix, the shape of the first quarter looks like this.

Measure Before Touching Anything

Where you rank today, your Google Business Profile scored against the businesses above you, a technical crawl, and your enquiry path tested from outside on a real phone. You keep the findings whether or not you continue.

Days 1–7

Fix The Profile And The Foundations

Profile rebuilt, review requests automated, technical faults cleared, duplicate pages consolidated, and call and form tracking switched on so from here we are counting real outcomes.

Days 8–35

Build, Then Hold

Pages written properly, reviews arriving weekly, monthly reporting on calls and bookings rather than impressions. Map pack movement often shows by week six. Organic is a three month question.

Days 36–90

Common Questions

Your Questions, Answered

Can I just buy one service

Yes, and sometimes that is the right answer — reviews and lead follow-up in particular stand on their own and are cheap. What we will not do is sell you a bundle of six when the audit says two of them will do the work.

How long before I see something

Reviews, profile and follow-up work often shows in four to six weeks because none of it depends on a ranking change. Ads are immediate. Organic SEO is a three month question minimum. If someone promises page one in thirty days, get their answer in writing about what happens if it does not work.

What does it cost

It depends on which channels the audit recommends and how much competition sits in your category. The proposal comes back with scope, timeline and a number so you can compare it properly against anyone else you are talking to. No discovery call required first.

Do you work outside Edmonton and Calgary

Yes — we work across Alberta, including Red Deer, Lethbridge, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie and the communities around Edmonton. The offices are in Edmonton and Calgary and the work is done here.

Do you lock me into a contract

No. You own the site, the profile, the content and the data, and you can take all of it with you. We would rather keep clients because the numbers justify it.

Do you specialise in anything

Physiotherapy and allied health clinics are our deepest specialism — enough of them that we know the referral patterns, the College advertising standards and where clinic growth actually leaks. We also work with law firms, dental and denture clinics, auto businesses, construction and trades, and local service businesses generally.

Come And See Us

Two Alberta Offices. No Offshore Work.

Edmonton

Head Office

Unit 101 – 10460 176 Street NW
Edmonton, AB T5S 2E4
(587) 849-0706
info@linkbufferstudios.com
Mon–Sat · 9am–9pm

Calgary

Serving Calgary & Area

6600 36 St NE #120
Calgary, AB T3J 4C8
(587) 849-0706
info@linkbufferstudios.com
Mon–Sat · 9am–9pm